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It is not fair to ask of otherswhat you are not willing to do yourself.- Eleanor Roosevelt

What is to give light must endure the burning.- Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace.One must believe in it.And it isn't enough to believe in it.One must work at it.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.- Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do usually can be done.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you NOwho doesn't have the power to say YES.- Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force.- Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experienceif they meet life honestly and courageously.This is how character is built.- Eleanor Roosevelt

As for accomplishments,I just did what I had to do as things came along.- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need -it is more vocation.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,you have an obligation to be one.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags.We don't know our true strengthuntil we are in hot water!- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right.You'll be criticized anyway.- Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.- Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;it is expressed in the choices one makes...and the choices we makeare ultimately our responsibility.- Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tenderthat we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?- Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fearby doing the things he fears to do,provided he keeps doing them until he getsa record of successful experience behind him.- Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.- Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comesand the only important thing is that you meet it with courageand with the best that you have to give.- Eleanor Roosevelt

My experience has been that work isalmost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,you should put a good deal of thoughtinto the happiness that you are able to give.- Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.The process never ends until we die.And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.- Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth,if a mother could ask a fairy godmotherto endow it with the most useful gift,that gift should be curiosity.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived,and curiosity must be kept alive.One must never, for whatever reason,turn his back on life.- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never really live anyone else's life,not even your child's.The influence you exert is through your own life,and what you've become yourself.- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to changethe mores faster than people can accept it.That doesn't mean you do nothing,but it means that you do the things thatneed to be done according to priority.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experiencein which I must stop and look fear in the face.I say to myself, I've lived through thisand can take the next thing that comes along.- Eleanor Roosevelt

In all our contacts, it is probably the senseof being really needed and wantedwhich gives us the greatest satisfactionand creates the most lasting bond.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age has deformities enough of its own.It should never add to them the deformity of vice.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that,if he could make me "understand" something,it would be clear to all the other people in the country.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with one's self is all important,because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding is a two-way street.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.- Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeperis that your guests are so pleasedto feel how very much better they are.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.With freedom comes responsibility.For the person who is unwilling to grow up,the person who does not want to carry is own weight,this is a frightening prospect.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition,and I rather like the role.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after meand I was very flattered.But I was not pleased to readthe description in the catalogue:no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.- Eleanor Roosevelt

We are afraid to care too much, for fearthat the other person does not care at all.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Have convictions. Be friendly.Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.Work as hard as they do.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.- Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictableit would cease to be life,and be without flavor.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right -for you'll be criticized anyway.You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I can not believe that waris the best solution.No one won the last war,and no one will win the next war.- Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strongshe is until you put her in hot water.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is pitiless.Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives:Always be on time.Do as little talking as humanly possible.Lean back in the parade carso everybody can see the president.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Actors are one family over the entire world.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Autobiographies are only as usefulas the lives you read about and analyzemay suggest to you something thatyou may find useful in your own journey through life.- Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experiencein which you really stop to look fear in the face.You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror.I can take the next thing that comes along."- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.One must never, for whatever reason,turn his back on life.- Eleanor Roosevelt

There are practical little things in housekeepingwhich no man really understands.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who knows history, particularlythe history of Europe, will, I think,recognize that the dominationof education or of governmentby any one particular religious faithis never a happy arrangement for the people.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who thinks, must think ofthe next war as they would of suicide.- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours -and I think probably gave me many nightmares.- Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standingand none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.- Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at lengthare those one admires without knowing why.- Eleanor Roosevelt